Getting rid of unwanted kitchen cabinetry

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

Okay, I'll try to do that in the next day or two. Thank you!!!!

Are you doing this without asking your husband? I need to know!!!

[simplyme]

Hire a professional, pls! IF it doesn't work out with Lowe's employee, its really harder
than you think and that anyone can explain with any accuracy., plus anything you do is going to be PERMANENT., you can't go back., BE SURE first.
My husband does this type and more, work., I've seen him make it look easy, but i know its not.
Also you MIGHT try self-help videos, I know that HGTV.com has some helps all over that site, or links., Lowes has a site, too.
as well as other big name stores, or just google a search, IF you feel that you can follow directions fully.

[Pressing-On]

Removing kitchen cabinets

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/askt...147842,00.html

(1) Remove any trim or molding.
(2) Turn off the stop valves under the sink, disconnect the supply hoses, and take out the sink.
(3) Disconnect and remove the range, dishwasher, and any other appliances that might be in the way.
(4) Remove the countertop.
(5) Take out all the cabinet drawers and doors. Removing the cabinets themselves is simply a matter of undoing the installer's work in a logical order—base cabinets first, then the upper cabinets.

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Are you doing this without asking your husband? I need to know!!!

YES!!!! If at all possible!

It's okay...he's very tolerant of my projects, and will fix it if I make a mess of things. If it's too hard, I'll try to persuade him to do it for me.

It's really easy, you know...you just say, "Honey, can you chop off this cabinet for me? If you don't know how to do it, Bruce (our carpenter) can do it for $200.00."



Is that manipulative?

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Removing kitchen cabinets

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/askt...147842,00.html

(1) Remove any trim or molding.
(2) Turn off the stop valves under the sink, disconnect the supply hoses, and take out the sink.
(3) Disconnect and remove the range, dishwasher, and any other appliances that might be in the way.
(4) Remove the countertop.
(5) Take out all the cabinet drawers and doors. Removing the cabinets themselves is simply a matter of undoing the installer's work in a logical order—base cabinets first, then the upper cabinets.

I'm not replacing all my cabinets. I just want to get rid of the one on the end.

I'll try to post pictures later for oletime. *gotta run*

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

YES!!!! If at all possible!

It's okay...he's very tolerant of my projects, and will fix it if I make a mess of things. If it's too hard, I'll try to persuade him to do it for me.

It's really easy, you know...you just say, "Honey, can you chop off this cabinet for me? If you don't know how to do it, Bruce (our carpenter) can do it for $200.00."



Is that manipulative?

Well, a little manipulative, but how do you get them to do anything? I have my husband on a project right now and he's dragging his feet - big time!

It isn't that easy with my husband either. If I say, "Could you, please......?", he says I'm telling him what to do and he won't do it.

Friday, I said, "Could you mow the lawn before so and so comes over?" He looks at me and that means, "No, because you told me to do it." He never mowed the lawn!

Good luck!

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Well, a little manipulative, but how do you get them to do anything? I have my husband on a project right now and he's dragging his feet - big time!

It isn't that easy with my husband either. If I say, "Could you, please......?", he says I'm telling him what to do and he won't do it.

Friday, I said, "Could you mow the lawn before so and so comes over?" He looks at me and that means, "No, because you told me to do it." He never mowed the lawn!

Good luck!

My husband doesn't like to be told what to do either. I HAVE to ask politely, or it will never get done. But even if I ask, he may not do it, at least, not in MY time frame.

Men!

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

My husband doesn't like to be told what to do either. I HAVE to ask politely, or it will never get done. But even if I ask, he may not do it, at least, not in MY time frame.

Men!

Thank you, Abigail! I thought I was alone crying in my milk, but I see I'm not alone!!!


Lord, he can make me angrier than anyone in the whole wide world!!!!! And I CAN ask politely, he still says it's telling him what to do!

Actually, if I could push him around, I wouldn't like that at all!!!

[ForeverBlessed]

I helped my ex husband put in our kitchen cabinets... I was the helper that held them while he screwed them into place... lol

However, it isn't hard to remove old ones...and I took out my bathroom vanity a few years ago... I just turned off the water, removed the plumbing stuff and took a hammer to the cabinet.... to make it small enough for me to carry to the trash. Then I went to a store and bought another one... came back and a neighbor had sympathy on me and helped me carry it upstairs.
I cut holes in the bottom of the cabinet for all the plumbing and installed the new facet and put it all together. Nothing leaks and hasn't for about 4 years...so I figure I did a good job.

You can do it. If the cabinets aren't bad, I would save them and use for storage somewhere else.

[seguidordejesus]

Ladies, ladies...

Men REALLY do not like to be pestered. I'm glad you've figured that out.